Artist statement: I
wish to establish myself as a unique designer of semi-precious jewellery,
which has been handcrafted in Ireland, but has been influenced by by living
and working Italy for 7 yers. I travelled to many parts of the world looking
for inspiration and materials and I was thought by an Italian craft worker.
In Rome, art and sculpture are everywhere and this environment helped to
create my unique designs, inspiring colour, choice of material and shapes.

Gerard Treacy, Master Glass Blower

Gerard began his career with Waterford Crystal as an
apprentice glass blower in 1979, aged 15. Within a year he moved on to ball
glass blower. The skill of the Master Glass Blower combines tremendous
dexterity and coordination of hands, breath and strength, especially with the
larger items. In 1984, Gerard qualified as a glass blower and, three years
later, became a Master Glass Blower. In a 32-year career at Waterford
Crystal, he has worked on the entire range of Waterford crystal pieces, which
include vases, wine glasses and champagne flutes.

“I am a second-generation Waterford artisan,” said Treacy,
who grew up a 10-minute walk from the Waterford, Ireland, crystal factory.
“My father was a master crystal cutter for 45 years…The company built the
houses on my street, so all of my friends and I worked at the factory when we
were old enough,”

In December 2011, Gerard Treacy will add his signature to
the limited edition Ambassador bowls at the Waterford Wedgwood store at
Silver Sands.

Artist statement: My
personal objectives as a craftsperson/artist are, to produce the highest
possible quality pieces whether contemporary or traditional. To learn from
our inheritance of traditional basket making and to promote an appreciation
of those skills by keeping the craft relevant while weaving the traditional
into contemporary art pieces, also to pass on the skills to a new generation
through teaching workshops. As my long term goal is to support my living
solely through my art, I have a need to secure a suitable long term
studio/workshop space. At present this is proving problematic, with exorbitant
rents and inadequate space. I intend to further my traditional basket-making
skills by attending workshops with master basket makers in Ireland and
Europe. Finally as an intuitive artist, I would dearly love to have the
opportunity to work with the internationally recognised artist Patrick
Dougherty, who is known for large-scale sapling sculpture in urban settings
in both Europe and America. I find the form and movement of his installations

Bernard Treacy from
Drummullin, Elphin was part of a team awarded a silver medal at the Culinary Olympics
which took place in Germany in October 2008. The twenty-two-year-old son
of Gerard and Mary Treacy was a member of the Irish Junior Culinary Team
and they were also awarded a bronze medal in the hot food category; the
silver medal was won in the buffet category. A graduate of Galway-Mayo
Institute of Techonology, Bernard is at present working in Salthill in
Galway, while one of his brother's, Patrick, is also a chef and holds
the position of head chef in the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Co. Cork.

Paul
Treacy, of Kilkenny and Barcelona.

“Chef Paul Treacy is no doubt the man responsible for
this and the tasting menus he's put together for Con Gracia will have you
searching for superlatives (just where did I put them?) to describe their
Mediterranean cuisine, with an Asian twist.”

Philip Anthony Treacy, b. 26 May 1967 Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, son of the late James Vincent Treacy and
Katie Agnes Treacy. His parents owned a baker’s shop in Ahascragh, Co. Galway.

Philip began studying fashion in Dublin at the National
College of Art & Design in 1985. He was more interested in making the hat
than the outfit. This coincided with him winning, in 1988, a place on the
Royal College of Art’s MA course. At the time the RCA was planning to
establish a hat course and his arrival confirmed that they were right to do
so. A star pupil from the outset, he soon gained the attention of the late
great style icon, Isabella Blow. Their meeting was subsequently to become the
subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum, ‘When Philip Met Isabella’. He
graduated in 1990 and set up his own business in the basement of Isabella and
her husband Detmar Blow’s home.

Philip won the British Accessory Designer of the Year
‘Oscar’ in 1991, 1992 and 1993, and
then again in 1996 and 1997. Irish Fashion Oscar 1992. Haut Couture Paris
2000.

He has designed hats for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel,
Valentino, Versace, Pucci, Alexander McQueen and most recently Ralph Lauren.
In 2000, he made millinery history by staging his ‘Orchid’ collection of
haute couture hats in Paris.

Philip heads an international company which sells
accessories all over the world. His design oeuvre has expanded to include
handbags, gloves, a chair for Habitat and a sportswear line for Umbro.

He has just completed the interiors for the G Hotel in
Galway, west of Ireland and will soon begin work on the interior design of a
new hotel in London’s Bow Street.

On the 19th of November 2007, at 40 years of
age, he was awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry
by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony in Clarence
House. The Duchess is one of his most loyal customers and she wore one of his
creations a metallic feathered ‘head-dress’ for her wedding in 2005.

1987 The early designs of milliner Philip
Treacy, who talks about his work and plans for the future.

Riona Treacy

Belfast born
fashion designer Riona Treacy, studied at the University of Ulster, achieving
a first class honours in her BA in Fashion and Textile Design before
progressing to an MA in Textile Material Product.

Shortly
after completing her masters in 2009, Riona moved to London where she
undertook a 6 month internship, with world famous fashion house Alexander
McQueen. Whilst on the embroidery team at McQueen, two of Riona's designs
were used in the A/W 2010 Collection, Lee McQueen’s last ever collection with
the fashion house, before his death.

Riona
then moved on to work as a full-time designer in the fashion industry,
designing accessories for the Arcadia Group, ASOS and River Island, before
branching out and focusing on her own, self-named label. Riona has since been
involved with both Belfast’s Fall For Fashion and Belfast Rocks Fashion
shows.

Riona’s
simplistic aesthetics paired with complex processes and engineered print
designs make her pieces conceptual, wearable and feminine. All of Riona’s
work is designed, printed and hand made in London.

Samantha
Treacy was born in
England and raised in Ireland. She graduated from the National College of Art
and Design in Dublin. Samantha served as Vice President of design at Diane von
Furstenberg and head designer at Jill Stuart. Samantha Treacy launched her line
in fall of 2002. She is a New York based designer.

Furniture
Design:

Benny
Treacy of Galway

Unit 8 Westside
Enterprise Centre, Westside, Co Galway.

Tel: 091 581066

Fax: 091 582146

Horticulture:

Ciaron (Kieron) Treacy is working as a horticulturist
in the U.K. and has won several awards from the R.H.A. for design and
conservation.

Literature
& Print Journalism:

Cian
Tracey, of Limerick and Dublin, sports journalist

2013- Reporter at Irish Independent

Sports Writer at FantasyPremierLeague
Transfers.com and Balls.ie

Freelance Writer at The Sunday Independent, Irish
Examiner, Irish Sun

Also The Irish Daily Mail, Evening Echo and The
Irish Emigrant

University of Limerick: 2007 – 2011 Bachelor of
Arts (B.A.), New Media & English

A litany of
burdens: a poem beginning "Blessed are those who work: their work is
blest". Green and gold: a magazine of fiction, Published by Waterford News, Waterford. Vol. II, No. 6, p. 43, March-May,
1922

Henry Tracy, 343
High Street, Glasgow[see Derry]

Pseud.
‘Peregrinus’. Brother of the Rev Bernard Tracy [of Derry], Mount St. Mary’s, Pollockshaws,
Glasgow, Scotland. Henry was a historical fiction writer and published the
following in book form when he resided in Glasgow 1863, although the preface
is dated 1st August 1864 Lille, France. Also published in the Dublin
Saturday Magazine supplement 1865-1867.

“The
adventures of Bernard O’Loughlin: A tale of the north of Ireland,
illustrative of the character and condition of the people some years back…”

“The
groundless accusation: or, the sufferings of Bernard O’Loughlin, a successful
candidate for the priesthood”

Larry Tracey, whose family came from Naas,
is the author of “Seagulls Dance” which, as well as being a novel, has made
its debut as a musical in Ireland, with an all-star cast. He co-founded
Powerline PLC in 1979. In 1984, he was responsible for the flotation of
Powerline on the London Stock Exchange. Since 2003, Larry Tracey has been the
executive chairman of XP Power PLC.

Lorcán Ó Treasaigh (1927 - 2006), born in Dún Laoghaire
November 1927, died inAn Charraig Dhubh
Dublin, aged 79 on October 22, 2006. He was one of four
children of Lorcán Ó Treasaigh and Julia Kelly. He was educated locally by the Christian
Brothers. He secured a post with the accounts department of Córas Iompar
Éireann (CIE) and became a compere on the radio trains that
in the 1950s and 1960s brought overseas visitors to Connemara and Killarney.
He was a writer in Irish, producing poetry and fiction, and wrote 20 plays
for Raidió Éireann.
He was also a stage, radio and television actor. In 1973, he won a Club
Leabhar prize of £100 from Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. He married Cáit Ní
Shiúedán in 1955 and was survived by his wife, sons Seán and Lorcán and
draughters Siobhán, Caitríona and Bríd.

Lorcán S. Ó Treasaigh was born in Marino,
Dublin in 1957. Married with three children, he lives in Dalkey. He is a
teacher and writer in the Irish language, with various works of poetry and
prose published. He cites Seosamh Mac Grianna and Seán Ó Ríordáin as the two
chief influences on his writing.
Lorcán has also been on the judging panel of the National Poetry Competition
with Poetry Ireland. His collection of poetry Comaitéir was an
Oireachtas prize winner. Céard é English?, commissioned by
Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge, was a best-seller and was selected as a Modern Irish
course text in St. Patrick’s College in Drumcondra and Maynooth. He received
an Arts
Council Irish-language literature bursary in 2007.

Louis Tracy married Ethel
Jane Morse in October 1896 in Marylebone, London

Louis (Patrick Joseph) Tracy, CBE (1863 - 1928) was a English journalist
of Irish parents, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms
Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel,
a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century. His father was Thomas
Treacy, a Yorkshire policeman. He was born in Ireland as Patrick Joseph
Treacy. He may have trained for the priesthood as he is stated to have
attended the French Seminary at Douai. In 1893 he was assistant editor at the
Sun and Evening News & Post of London [6th December 1893 South Wales Echo
Pimlico Mystery. The Death of a Lady Journalist....London Sun office...Mr
Louis Tracey, assistant editor, said the deceased was...] His first novel, The
Final War, was published in 1896.

In Oct 1888 he married Emma (Amy) Elizabeth Weston at Whitby,
Yorkshire North Riding. His son Louis Turgis Tracy was born in Brighton,
Sussex in January 1895, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Tracey died in
Westminster in May 1896, aged 30.

[23rd May 1896 South Wales Daily News - Tracey. On the 21st inst., at
201, Piccadilly, W., after a brief illness, the dearly loved wife of Louis
Tracey, aged 30 years. Anglo-Indian papers please copy.] Amelia Tracy
registered death in Brighton Sussex in 1898. Louis Tracy (son of Thomas
Tracy) married Ethel Jane Morse the 19 October 1896 in Marylebone, London

In the
1901 Census, Louis Joseph Tracy, 38 years born Liverpool Lancashire, is a boarder at 26 Maida Hill
West, Paddington, London, along with his wife Ethel Jane Tracy, 32 years born
Grosmont Herefordshire [borders Monmouthshire], and son Louis Turgis Tracy, 6 years born Brighton
Sussex.

He made
many trips to the USA and was well received there. In the New York Times of 7
May 1910, the following biographical notice was published: "Louis Tracy
was born in Liverpool, England, on March 18 1863. He was educated privately
at his home in Yorkshire and subsequently at the French Seminary at Doual.
Beginning his literary career as a writer on the Northern Echo at Darlington
he subsequently went to Cardiff Wales and thence to Allahabad, India. He
returned to England in 1893, and helped TP O'Connor start The Sun, and
afterwards acquired an interest in The Evening News of London. In 1895, he
paid a visit to this country [USA] and since then has travelled extensively.
He is known as the author of many novels, the best known of which are
"The Final War", "Rainbow Island", "The Pillar of
Light" and "Waifs of Circumstances".

In the
1911 Census, Louis Tracy, 48 years, born Liverpool, Lancashire, Author
(Novelist), lived at Fairlawn Whitby, Ruswarp Yorkshire-North Riding with his
wife of 14 years and no children, Ethel Jane Tracy, 41 years, born Grosmont,
Monmouthshire, Wales. His son Louis Turgis Tracy, 16 years, born Brighton,
Sussex, was a border at Epsom College Public School.

On the 8th
September 1914, Louis Turgis Tracy, son of Louis and Amy Tracy, of Whitby,
Yorkshire joined 5th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. In records, he is also listed as
Lewis, his service number is 4700 Seaforth Highlanders 1st/4th Bn. Rossshire
Buffs. He died on the 3rd June 1916 and is buried at the Louez Military
Cemetery, Duisans.

In 1914, Louis Tracy had a hand in forming the Whitby Branch of the
North Riding Volunteer Reserve, and in 1915 was made sub-commander of the
regiment. During the
rest of the first World War, he devoted himself to propaganda in favour of
the allied cause in the United States. In July 1917, his address was given as
Montclair, NJ. On the 15th of April 1920, The New York Times was pleased to
announce that "King George Honors Louis Tracy" with the Commander
of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to the Bureau of
Information of the British War Mission. In the 1920s, He also raised fund
there to restore Westminster Abbey.

In March
1920 Publishers' Weekly announced that Louis Tracy Productions, Inc. had been
formed to bring all of Tracy’s books to the screen. The new company, however,
apparently only released one, The Silent Barrier (1920).

In 1926
he published "The Law Of The Talon" and there is a copy which is
inscribed "Dear Mr. Varley Knowing your love of first editions, I am
sending you an autographed copy of my husband’s latest. With all good wishes
from us both. Yours sincerely Kathleen Tracy".

Louis
Tracy died on 13 August 1928 at his home, Dunholme, in Sellindge, a small
village outside of Ashford, Kent, at the age of 65.

Newspaper
Ref:

Little is
known of Louis Tracy with caricature New York Times April 27, 1907

Maura Treacy (b. 1946) of Kilkenny has written
stories and article. In 1974 she won the Writers’ Week in Listowel Short Story
Award. Shewas awarded a bursary by
the Arts Council in 1983 and received a grant from the American-Irish Foundation
in 1987.

Included
in Best Irish Short Stories ed. David Marcus (1977).

Sixpence in Her Shoe and other
stories. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1977

Scenes
from a Country Wedding
(1982). A novel

A minor
Incident from
‘Sixpence in her shoe’ in Daniel J.
Casey, Linda M. Casey (1990) Stories by Contemporary Irish Women. She sets "A Minor
Incident" along the South Armagh border, although, strictly speaking,
Maura Treacy is not a Northerner, having grown up near Dundalk.

Michael Tracey

The
critical minute: a poem of the epick kind. In two books. Inscrib'd to the
Reverend Dr. S. By Michael Tracey, Gent. Dublin: printed by and for James Hoey,
1731.

Monica
Tracey b. 1931 in Lisburn, County
Antrim. She was educated at the Sacred Heart ofMary Convent, Lisburn, and Queen's
University Belfast, where she read French. She has lived in France and
Germany, and has taught in Enniskillen

“It’s the living that kills you.” The Second Blackstaff
Book of Short Stories in 1991.

Sean Treacy (1924-1986)
was born in 1924 in Galway City, where his father had a small business and
his mother was a head teacher. He completed his education at St Jarlath’s
College, much against his will. He joined the Irish Army Corps at the age of
eighteen, becoming a pilot. [link] But
after five years of flying he decided to become a publican in England. His
first job was a learner-barman at the Goldhawk, Shepherd’s Bush. Within a
year he was managing Finch’s King’s Arms in the Fulham Road, Chelsea. He
stayed there for eight years before taking the tenancy of the Queen’s Elm,
further up the Fulham Road. The Queen’s Elm was patronised by many famous
people in the arts in the 60’s and 70’s. His first book, A Smell of Broken
Glass, was published in 1973, followed by Shay Scally and Manny
Wagstaff, in 1976.

For generations one of London’s most famous watering
holes was The Queen’s Elm on Fulham Road, Chelsea. The 20th century pub
features in A Smell of Broken Glass, the 1973 memoir of its Galway-born
landlord Sean Treacy - Laurie Lee kindly thought up the title. In Treacy’s
day the walls were covered with original JAK cartoons and his collection of
antique pipes. When Treacy died in 1986 the pub closed.

Tracy's Collection of Favourite County Dances, for the
present year; with proper Basses and Figures for Dancing. Dublin (published by
Hime), folio.

An introduction to the study of national music by Carl
Engel. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London, 1866 (MDCCCLXVI)

Entertainment:

Ryan
Tracey of Omagh Co. Tyrone, entertainer & record holder.

A father-of-five, who grew up in Omagh and now lives in
Beragh, Mr Tracey said he initially took up balloon modelling ahead of a
first birthday party for one of his children. He is also a senior hurler with
St Enda's GAA in Omagh.

I am Ryan Tracey AKA “Duff”

Balloon modelling has been a real passion for me for
almost 3 years now. It started when I was in Circus School and I wanted to
learn new skills to entertain my 5 children- Aoife, Aimee, Rebecca, Matthew
and Jessica. I have learnt my craft from other Balloon Artists around the
globe, through their online tutorials. I have spent over 2,000 hours training
and can make over 300 different models, I continue to build on my passion,
learning new models every week. I have made over 60,000 Balloon Models in the
last 18 months, and I’m only getting started.

In October 2016 I accidentally auditioned for Britain’s
Got Talent. Turns out BGT quite liked what I do and I now have to attend the
Theatre auditions with Celebrity Judges and live theatre audience!

Agnes Treacy, (1877-) (Mrs
James Harold) was born in Nenagh, Cо. Tipperary, the daughter of William Treacy
of Fermanagh. She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Scholar), was a
soprano singer, known chiefly as an interpreter of Oratorio. [see Agnes Treacy]

Born into a musical family in
Waterford, Ireland, I experienced an eclectic range of music during my
formative years having attended everything from Waterford’s annual festival
of Light Opera to “Spraoi”, a celebration of street music and art as well as traditional
sessions of Irish music in pubs throughout Ireland. Along the way I also
developed a keen interest in history. Currently I am working on French and
English music c.1300-c.1450 analysing compositional style in the Old Hall
Manuscript, Ms. Ivrea, and the Apt manuscript. I am also exploring issues of
patronage and political commentary in the early poetry (pre- Canterbury
Tales) of Geoffrey Chaucer and the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut
including Le Remede de Fortune, and Le Jugement de Roi de Behaingne. Other
interests include performance aspects of Medieval English Drama and I have
worked specifically on the function of music in York 45: The Assumption of
the Virgin. In addition, I have produced medieval plays for The Granary
Theatre, University College Cork, including Fulgens and Lucres and Adam de la
Halle’s Jeu de Robin et Marion. In addition, I am director of the University
of Wolverhampton’s Early Music Ensemble, Réaltanna, which performs a
repertoire of both instrumental and vocal music from the medieval and
renaissance periods. Increasingly Réaltanna are also extending their
repertoire to include both traditional Irish folktunes and compositions by
contemporary Irish composers such as Michael McGlynn and Shaun Davey

1995. BA in Music and English.
University of Ireland: University College Cork. (2.1).

1997. MA in Medieval Music &
English Literature. National University of Ireland: University College Cork.
(2.1)

Folk
Song in County Tyrone, 1910

The pride of Ballintubber, Co. Roscommon, The Premier
Aces started their careers known as The Pioneers Aces as none of the band
drank alcohol and all were members of The Total Abstinence Society. The band
was put together, in part, by the late Peter Shanagher, who had been the
leader of the Ivy Caste Dance Band, also based in Ballintubber. However,
Peter emigrated to England in 1956 before the band hit the road and handed
over the reins to Stephen Treacy and Paddy Malone. The original line up was:
Paddy Malone (alto sax), Andy Malone (drums), Sonny Ward (tenor sax), Stephen
Treacy (accordion) Liam Treacy (saxophone) and Mickey Slyman (vocals and
trombone).

Around 1960, the Treacy brothers (Stephen and Liam)
decided to form their own band, The Rhythm Stars (also from
Ballintubber) with three of their brothers, Aidan, Al and Sylvester. Pat
Rock, showband era historian from Ballymahon, says the Rhythm Stars were
unique in that there were seven brothers and one sister involved at one time
or another. They were Stephen, Len, Al, Gerald, Aiden, Silvie, Liam
(R.I.P.), and Millie Treacy. The full list of those who featured with the
Rhythm Stars Showband from 1960 to 1974 includes the eight members of the
Treacy family (mentioned earlier), Paul Lynch, Jimmy Raftery, Sean Raftery
(R.I.P.), Jack Mulheir, Michael Clarke, Jimmy Diffley, P.J. Crane, John
Dunne, Michael Keane, Dene Lane, Michael McDermott (R.I.P.) and Jimmy
Kearney. Managers included Brendan Wallace, Billy Molloy (R.I.P.) and Stephen
Treacy. In 1972, several ex-members of the Rhythm Stars formed a new version
of The Premier Aces with local singer, Patsy McCaul out front. The lineup included
Aidan (trumpet), Sylvie (accordion/keyboards/Guitar) and Al Treacy (drums),
brothers of original Pioneer Aces, Liam (RIP) and Stephen.

In the mid-1980s, Sylvie
and Aiden played with the Brendan Shine band, Al played with the T.R. Dallas
band, and Lyn played with a local group in Roscommon. Michael lived inTubbercurry. Gerald Treacy owned a shoe
shop in Swinford Mayo and Steve had was in the shoe trade in Castlerea.

(3/9/1986 Connaught
Telegraph)

In
2003, memories of the the Rhythm Stars are alive and well with the release of
a new CD. Copies of the CD were available from Stephen Treacy’s Sports Shop,
Main Street, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon.

Caitríona began her music studies with the award of
scholarship to the College of Music, Chatham Row, where she studied piano,
theory and musicianship for sixteen years. Her studies culminated in the
award of Teaching Diploma from the R.I.A.M., a B.Ed. Degree and more recently
an Honors Masters Degree in Music Education. Caitríona has worked extensively
with choirs, bands and musical societies in Leinster. Shows to her credit
include My Fair Lady, Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, Oklahoma!,A Slice of Saturday Night, Hello Dolly! Grease, Seussical (Irish
Premiere), Les Misérables, The Witches of Eastwick, High School Musical,
and Annie. In 2005,Caitríona received her second consecutive AIMS Award
Nomination and was honoured with the AIMS Best Musical Director Award for her
work on Coolmine’s Fiddler on the Roof. She was also Musical
Director for the AIMS Best Overall Show Winner, Oliver! (Teachers’
MS). After this, Caitríona will be MD for Joe Conlan’s Summer Show You
Can’t Stop the Beat at the Mill Theatre Dundrum in June, Joseph
(Trim, September) and Back to the Eighties (October). She is
delighted to have been asked to MD this fantastic show with such a great cast
and team.

The
Late Charles Austin Tracy.
A fine old gentleman, and an able musician, has passed away in the person of
Mr. Charles Austin Tracy. Mr. Tracy died at his late residence, Waverley, on
Sunday. He had suffered much, but the fervour of faith which sustained him
all through life enabled him to prepare for the end in a perfect spirit of
pious resignation. Some days previously he had received the Last Sacraments
from the hands of his confessor, and only a few minutes before the summons
came he had answered the Litany for the Dying, read at his request by one of
his sons. He had no struggle, and an edifying life was fitly closed by a
happy death. Mr. Tracy was born in Ireland, and he had reached his 58th year.
He came of a musical family, and inherited high musical gifts. His father was
a Doctor of Music, and his grandfather was also a musical professor. Mr.
Tracy in turn reared a musical family in Australia. Two of his daughters are
very accomplished musicians. One daughter, Mrs. George Brewer, is organist at
the Sacred Heart Church, Randwick, and the other, Miss Mary Tracy, is
organist at the church of St. Charles, Waverley. Mr. Tracy arrived in the
colonies about 30 years ago, first settling in Victoria. He held the position
of organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, for 16 years, and was in
the front rank of musicians in the southern capital. He came to New South
Wales some nine years ago, and two positions he filled here were those of organist
of the Catholic cathedral, West Maitland, for a period of three years, and
organist of Goulburn Catholic cathedral for two years. He was the composer of
several Benedictions and other church music. Mr. Tracy's last notable
performance as an organist was at St. Mary's Cathedral during the Plenary
Council of 1895. The funeral was on Monday. Mr. Joseph Tracy and Mr. Frank
Tracy (sons of the deceased), Mr. George Brewer and Mr. Percy Shannon
(relatives), were the chief mourners. Among others who attended were the Very
Rev. P. B. Kennedy, O.S.F., Rev. Father Joyce, O.S.F., Rev. Father Gaynor,
O.S.F., Rev. M. Tierney, M.S.H., Rev. Dr. Merg, M.S.H., Rev. Father Donze,
M.S.M., Mr. H. B. Brewer, Mr. W. Brewer, Mr. A. C. Hewlett (Mayor of
Waverley), Messrs. M. Hegerty, R. Gillis, H. A. Lyons, James Green, M. T.
Deloitte, G. W. Preshaw, T. H. Barlow, W. A. Barlow, C. Barlow, J. B.
Despointes, Selwyn Lisle, R. Daly, and E. Finn. The prayers at the grave were
read by the Very Rev. Father Kennedy and Fathers Joyce and Gaynor. Among a
large number of floral tributes sent by friends was a magnificent wreath
forwarded by the members of the choir of St. Charles' Church, Waverley - a
choir in which the deceased gentleman took deep interest.
Our Goulburn correspondent writes: - the announcement of the death of Mr.
Charles Austin Tracy awakened kind though regretful recollections m Goulburn,
where he had been organist in St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral- and Professor
of Music at St. Patrick's College a few years ago. The sympathy of his
friends in Goulburn goes to his family in their bereavement.

Laudate
dominum de coelis, Ps. CXLVIII : sacred chorus diversified with solos and
adapted with Latin and English words : composed for the opening of organ at
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, March 1880 ...by Charles A. Tracy.

Clare
Treacey is a young Irish soprano with an exciting new voice. She is currently
studying for a Masters in Vocal Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama in Cardiff.

Clare
was born in Toronto, but moved to Dublin at the age of three. She was
passionate about singing from a young age and took her first lessons at
Waltons New School of Music. She was awarded the Young Student of the Year in
2005.

Clare
studied for a Bachelor in Music Education at Trinity College Dublin and DIT
Conservatory of Music and Drama, graduating in June 2011 with first-class
honours and a Gold Medal. She has been awarded many scholarships, including
the Lázsló Nemes Scholarship to the Kodály Society of Ireland Summer Course
in July 2011.

In March
2012, Clare won the Overall Award and Bursary at Arklow Music Festival. In September
2012, she moved to Cardiff to pursue a Masters in Vocal Studies with soprano
Suzanne Murphy and coach Cameron Burns at the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama.

Clare
has had much success with competitions in Ireland, winning prizes and commendations
in the Soprano Solo, Thomas Moore Cup, German Government Cup, Wilson Opera
Ensemble, Marchant Vocal Trio and Oliver O’Brien Choral competitions in the
Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil. She has also won competitions for Irish Song,
Musical Theatre, French Song and Lieder within DIT Conservatory of Music, as
well as the Dramatic Aria competition in Sligo Feis Ceoil. She has also sung
as part of the award-winning Trinity Singers choir.

The
Tracy Family of Clones, Co. Monaghan are now in the band business, providing
Ceili music all over the republic. The band was founded and is managed by 21
year old Des Tracy who plays the piano accordion. His 23 year old brother
Paddy is in charge of the drums while their sister Ena, aged 20, performs on
the piano and accordion. Des has given up his job as a garage mechanic. Ena
is a drapers assistant and Paddy is a cinema projectionist. (1955 Irish
Times)

From the mid 1950’s the famous
“Des Tracy Trio” from Clones were one of the most popular dance bands in this
north midlands area from the mid fifties until the era of the dance hall
craze faded out some years ago. The trio then were Des (center), his late
sister Ena (RIP) on piano and the late Dominic Monaghan (RIP) on drums. They
were all from Clones but Des Tracy was born in Arva but his family moved to
Clones where Des and Ena grew up and Des lived most of his working life there
while working in Northern Ireland as a company representative. Des later
moved to Kingscourt where he lived and spent the remainder of his working
life and was a very popular musician playing solo in the adjoining parts of
the counties of Cavan, Meath and Monaghan. Des has been a lifelong friend of
mine [Bailieboro
News]from when he played at the
first dance that I ‘took the floor’ at (and walked on girls toes). We were in
the FCA together since the early fifties and we were both army drivers of the
old Ford V8 FCA station wagons. Des was a driver of the Monaghan Batt,
station wagon and I was a driver of the East Cavan Batt. Station wagon.

In December 2013, After many requests from
his friends and family, Des Tracey has finally got down and recorded his
first CD of accordion music, titled “My Kind of Music.”

My Grandfather was Ernest William Sibbald Treacy was
married to Evelyn May Hester (Morris) 25th August 1920 Belfast, Northern
Ireland. Some of his family lived in Hollywood, Northern Ireland. Ernest’s
Father was from Southern Ireland his name was known as Sam and his wife
Elizabeth. I have heard Wicklow, Carlow he could have come from anywhere LOL.
But Sam and Elizabeth eloped to Northern Ireland and married and he was a
member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

I remember him when I was young and I am trying to find
out more about his family. I have all the information on his wives and
children. I am just trying to find out about his brothers and
sisters and where they came from originally in Ireland. I myself was born in
Ireland but later and I am living in the USA now.

Ernest was the band leader of Sibbald Treacy’s Rhythm
Kings in Northern Ireland and played for the BBC. He also played the piano.
I would like to hear from anyone that knew him or may have any of his
sheet music. I remember as a child seeing all his sheet music with his
picture on the front of it and visiting him when he lived on the Antrim Road
in Belfast where there was a plaque outside the front door that read Musical
Director Sibbald Treacy Lives or lived here. I am not sure if it is still
there or not.

15 Aug 1930, Radio Times
vol. 28 no. 359, p. 365
The afternoon concert on Friday, August 29, will be provided by the Trocadero
Sextet, directed by E.W. Sibbald Treacy, and relayed from the Trocadero
Restaurant, Portrush. Besides being musical director of the sextet, Mr.
Treacy is responsible for the dance band at the Northern Counties Hotel in
this County Antrim seaside resort. His interest in dance music began when he
visited America eight years ago and came into contact with Schneider’s band
in New York and Pennsylvania. Shortly after this he completed a tour through
Europe with an American band, and the experience gained in this direction has
been made full use of by Mr. Treacy, with the result that his sextet has
proved itself the finest café orchestra in the Province. An idea of the
strength of the combination can be gleaned from the fact that it contains
such artists as Randolph Booth (violoncello), whose solos were at one time a
feature of the Regent Cinema, Sheffield; and Jack Glover, who has earned a
high reputation in the dance world.

1930’S Other Broadcasting
Stations,

Northern
Ireland.

6.00 Sibbald
Treacy’s Rhythm Kings.

Guardian
newspaper

Uisneagh
Treacy and Fiachra Treacy

Fiachra Treacy and Uisneagh Treacy of Bray, Co.
Wicklow

Columbia Mills

Indietronica duo Columbia
Mills, comprised of duo Ste Ward and Fiachra Treacy (guitars/ keys/ vocals),
made an impact early in 2014 with the release of their stunning single ‘Never
Gonna Look At You The Same’. Now the band have delivered on this initial
promise with their debut E.P. "Factory Settings" in November 2014.

Empire Saints were
formed in 2008 by brothers Fiachra Treacy & Uisneagh Treacy. Shortly
after, long-time friend Noel Healy, drummer & co-songwriter joined the
Saints along with Pete Cheevers. Empire Saints have headlined gigs in some
very prestigious venues even at this early stage in their career including
the Sugar Club and Whelan's in Dublin and The Hope and Anchor in London.
Empire Saints were also shortlisted in Hot Press's "London Calling"
competition with the top prize of playing in front of 20,000 people in
Trafalgar Square at the St. Patrick's Festival. The video for "Float
On", which has been selected for the 2010 Bornshorts Film Festival in
Denmark in August 2010. Their debut single “Mazy Haze” was released in
November 2010.They recorded their EP
“Soundtrack to the City” with Meteor award winning producer Gareth Mannix
Empire Saints and released their debut album “Shattered Bones and Monotones”
in February 2012.

There was quit a goodly-sized audience in the Molesworth Hall
Dublin, last night at the recital given by Mr. Fred R Treacy, F.C.V. This young
player has won high distinctions as a student during the past few years, and
this was his first public recital...

Mar 28, 1927
(IT) Concert at Rathmines

...Mr. Fred Tracey played Irish airs arranged arrnged by Larchet,
on the violin, and joined later in an instrumental trio with the Misses
Josephine O'Neill and Una Lord...

Nov 21, 1927 (IT) Dublin Theatres and Cinemas

...Mr. Fred Treacey will give a violin recital at the Engineers
Hall, Dawson street, to-morrow evening. The programme will include the Concerto
in D by Paganini and the C Minor Sonata, for pianoforte and violin by Grieg, in
which Miss Dorethy Stokes will take part...

April 1928 Violin Recital

Mr. Fred R. Treacy, F.C.V., Dublin, gave a
very interesting violin recital in the Town Hall, Dun Laoghaire. Among the
items he played were "Sonata in C Minor" (Greig); "Concerto in
D" (Paganini-Wilhelm); and "Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2"
(Chopin-Wilhemji). Mr. Patrick Kirwan was the vocalist and Miss Dorothy Stokes
the pianist.

2RN and the origins of Irish radio

This trio was replaced on an
official basis at the end of the station's first month with the 'Station Trio',
consisting of Rosalind Dowse and Frederick
Treacy, violins and Viola
O'Connor, cello.

Ian Graham Tracey was born in Liverpool on 27 May 1955 the
son of William Tracey and Helene Mignon Harris. His family originally came
from Fermanagh, migrating to Scotland in the 1850s before settling in
Liverpool.

He attended Highfield School (1966-1973). Studied organ
with Lewis Rust & Noel Rawsthorne, before going up to Trinity College of
Music, London (1973-1975).

Studied in Paris with Andre Isoir and Jean Langlais under
a scholarship (1976).

President, Incorporated Association of Organists of Great Britain
2001-2003.

Organist
Titulaire of Liverpool Cathedral, since 2008.

Tonal
Director for Makin Organs & Copeman Hart, since 2011.

Deputy
Lieutenant of Merseyside, since 2015.

Awards:

FTCL, 1975.

FRSA, 1988.

North West Arts Award for Classical Music, 1994.

Hon FRCO 2002.

Hon DMus, Liverpool University, 2006.

FRSCM 2008.

FGCM 2009.

Professor Ian Traceyhas had a life-long association
with Liverpool Cathedral and its music and, with his two illustrious
predecessors, continues the tradition of an almost apostolic succession. He
studied organ with Lewis Rust and then with his immediate precursor Dr. Noel
Rawsthorne. Studies at Trinity College, London, culminated in Fellowship,
after which, scholarship grants enabled him to continue his studies in Paris,
with both Andre Isoir and Jean Langlais.

In 1980 he became the youngest Cathedral Organist in the Country, and
in 2007 after 27 years service, the Dean & Chapter created the post of
‘Organist Titulaire’, allowing him the freedom to devote more time to
playing, lecturing, recording and writing. Since his appointment in 1980, he
has played most of the major venues in this country, and an increasing number
in Europe; very much in demand in the U.S.A., he has made 23 extensive tours,
playing in all the major Cities and in 1999 & 2003 undertook major tours
of Southern Australia, recitaling, examining and teaching. The past two seasons
have included concerts in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Bermuda, Paris,
Holland, Germany, Jersey & Spain; he returns again to Germany and Holland
in 2015.

On the wider musical canvas, he is a frequent broadcaster with the
B.B.C., and his recordings on the Cathedral Organ have met with wide acclaim
from the critics, recording for E.M.I., CHANDOS and PRIORY. He regularly
examines and adjudicates and, over the past 28 years, has conducted over 250
concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus. He
holds Fellowships from 20 prestigious musical institutions both here and
abroad, including the Royal College of Organists, as one of only 28 Honorary
Fellows worldwide. In 2006, the University of Liverpool conferred upon him
Doctor of Music, in recognition of his long and distinguished service to
music in Liverpool and of his national and international reputation. In 2008,
the Royal School of Church Music and in 2009, the Guild of Church Musicians,
awarded him Fellowships for distinguished services to church music and his
international reputation as a church musician. He was commissioned as a
Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Merseyside in 2015.

His other posts include: Organist to the City of Liverpool; at St.
George's Hall; Chorus Master to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society;
Guest Director of Music for the BBC Daily Service, Professor, Fellow and
Organist at Liverpool, John Moores University, Tonal Director for Makin
Organs & Copeman Hart Ltd. and past president of the Incorporated Association
of Organists of Great Britain.

His compositions
include a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Fauxbourdons) and Responses for Men's
voices. He has composed several carols and many descants and arrangements,
including a version of the popular football song 'You'll never walk alone'
which caught the national imagination at the moving Memorial Service for the
victims of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster.

Belfast
boys John Tracey and Kevin Bartlett, have been playing music almost all of their lives and
have over ten years of experience as performing musicians. They boldly
and proudly present their own unique take on the best of contemporary blues
and acoustic music. Not only that, but with their original and truly inspired
song writing, their repertoire is a treat for music lovers of all genres.

2015
he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Irish & Celtic Studies
from Queen's University Belfast on the native Irish Gaelic dialect of County
Down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

2016 New
boys on the block, The Tumbling Paddies with John McCann, Leigh Jones and
Martin Treacy...

2014
Ceolmar are the latest young Trad group to emerge on the scene. Hailing from
Fermanagh and Tyrone, Ceolmar consist of: Martin Treacy, Accordion/Melodeon;
Gareth Maguire, Vocals/Bodhran; James McCaffery, Flute/Whistle; Ciaran Owens,
Banjo/Mandolin and Lee Jones, Guitar. This new group play a range of
traditional and contemporary tunes and songs, arranged in a traditional
style.

2012
Corcaghan CCE workshops...Martin Treacy (accordion)...

Comhaltas:

Accordion
player Martin Treacy from Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh plays two jigs: “Kevin
O’Loughlin’s” and “Paddy O’Brien’s”. Recorded in October 2012 in Cultúrlann
Uí Chanáin in Derry.

He was a
native of Limerick [9 Upper William St?] and was educated at St. Munchin’s
College, Limerick.

While a
student at Maynooth, he assisted Father Bewerunge, the German Professor of
Gregorian Chant and acted as organist and choirmaster in absence of Bewerunge
1914-21.

In 1916
he was ordained a priest of the diocese of Limerick. In the 1920’s he was C.C., St. Michael's,
Limerick. Chaplin of Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Mount St. Vincent
Female Orphanage, Limerick and was president of the Limerick Gaelic League.

In
November 1924 he won a musical scholarship given by the Irish bishops in connection
with the vacant Chair of Gregorian Chant at Maynooth College. The scholarship
was tenable for two years at the Cecilian University of Music, Rome. In 1927
he was professor of Church Chant and Organ, Sacred Music, St. Patrick's
College, Maynooth.

In 1951
he retired on pension in poor health and died 19 May 1954 and was buried in
the college cemetery.

Published:

1952 The
Training of the Organist and Choirmaster (Catholic Church) in Music in
Ireland: A Symposium. Cork University Press, Cork.

Michelle Treacy, singer/songwriter from Ottawa
Canada, whose family came from Tipperary

Michelle,
who holds both Irish and Canadian citizenship. Her Dad Michael was born and raised
in Drombane, Upperchurch, Tipperary having emigrated over 30 years ago, and
her proud Mum is Jeanette Doiron.

Michelle
Treacy was thrust into the limelight two years ago when she performed an
impromptu duet with New York pop diva Lady Gaga on stage at a concert in
Montreal.

Two
years ago she signed a deal with a U.S. Management company and a single she
released late last year entitled We Want It All, caught the attention of
Sony.

She has
gone on to fulfil her lifelong ambition of becoming a professional singer
songwriter, teaming up with fellow Canadians Todd Clark and Steve Kozmeniuk
to produce her debut album with Sony Music Entertainment Canada.

She
released her first single, Armageddon, at the end of June 2016 which climbed
the charts to number 17. In December 2016 released her second single Colours.
Popular music websites such as BuzzFeed & Spotify have included her as
number 11 in your 17 Artists To Watch Out For In 2017.

The family of John Treacey & Mary Anne
Rice originated in Laois, Limerick and Kilkenny.

Miguel Rice Treacy (1903-1971), stage name Carlos Viván,
known as El irlandesito (The Irish Boy), was an actor, tango singer and
songwriter. His first recording is from 1927 and he worked with the
orchestras of Juan Maglio, Pedro Maffia, Osvaldo Fresedo and Julio De Caro.
He went to work in Brazil and the United States, where he sang tangos and
jazz. He had a small warm voice, within an alto-tenor range, as was common
then, plus a feature that made his voice unmistakable, his vibrato’ (Todo
Tango). He published the famous Argentine tangos "Cómo se piante la
vida!" and "Moneda de Cobre"

As an actor, he
was known for Carioca Maravilhosa (1936), Canto de amor (1940) and Consejo de
tango (1932).

In March
2008, Kerry’s Young Musician of the Year for 2008, finalist was Oisin Treacy,
under-12 brass.

In
November 2008, Oisin sang ‘March’ by GF Handel at the prestigious Permanent TSB
High Achiever Awards’ regional concert in Limerick. The concert and the awards
celebrate the ability, energy and commitment of over 42,000 music and speech
and drama students from around the country who take part in the local centre
examination system of the Royal Irish Academy of Music each year.

In April
2011, 14 year old Oisin, was the Feis Ceoil talented gold medal winning
trumpeter, and performed on the John Murray Show on RTE Radio One on the 14th
April 2011.

I teach set dancing for the past fifteen years and my husband is
Paddy Treacy, the well known flute player from Galway. He comes from
Cappatagle, a few miles west of Ballinasloe. A lot of good musicians came
from there. When Paddy moved to Dublin he went to the Pipers Club in Thomas
Street where he met Leo Rowsome, Willie Clancy, Bobby Casey, Séan Seery,
Kathleen Harrington, Sonny Brogan, John Joe Gannon, Paddy O'Brien and lots
more.

He joined the Kincora Ceili Band and J J Gannon and Bobby Casey.
They played all over the country and would be away every Sunday night. During
this period he played in the Oireachtas flute competition representing the
Pipers Club. He got first three times and in 1956 he won the Oireachtas Gold
Medal receiving full marks which meant he couldn't enter any more. He won
first in the first and second Fleadhs. He gave up playing with the Kincora as
we had been married by then and had a young family and Paddy didn't want to
be away from home.

A few years later Paddy O'Brien returned from America and started the
Lough Gowna Ceili Band so Paddy was asked to join. They broadcast regularly
and played in the Oireachtas band competition and won three times. About
fifteen years ago he started the Sheelin Ceili Band with Seamus Meehan, Phil
McMahon, F De Bruen and A Vaughan, Paddy playing the C melody sax as well as
the flute. He packed up the band a year ago and just plays for set dancers in
the Merchant Bar every Wednesday. He has been there for the past eleven
years. You might think that was near the end of the music. No way, we have an
open house with every flute player in Dublin coming to play music. Great fun,
lovely friends and that's what life is all about. Of course Paddy being from
Galway he has been set dancing since he was a kid and enjoys coming to my
classes and ceili with me. We have a wonderful life and wonderful friends
thanks to Paddy's music and being involved in set dancing. I am enclosing a
photo of Paddy taken last Christmas. Hope you find this of some interest.

I am sorry to say that the great east Galway flute
player, Paddy Treacy, passed away on Wednesday the 10th of September. Paddy
was a member of the Aughrim Slopes Ceili Band along with Paddy Fahy, Paddy
Kelly, Paddy Carthy, Paddy O’Brien, Joe Mills and George Shanley. He won the
inaugural flute competition at the All Ireland Fleadh Ceoil in 1951 and again
in 1954. He did not enter this competition again until 1964 and again took
first place. He was awarded a gold medal for achieving 100% marks for his
performance in the Oireachtas competition of 1956. After moving to Dublin in
the late 1940s Paddy played with many ceili bands including the Kincora,
Lough Gowna, St Patrick’s and Sheelin, and made many recordings for radio and
television with these bands over the years.

Paddy was a very gracious and generous man and he was
an inspiration to his many pupils, including all of my own family, over the
years. I am glad to say that Paddy continued playing, teaching and enjoying
music right up to the very last days of his illness.

Paddy is survived by his beloved wife Kaye, son David,
daughter Jean and brothers Marty, Sonny, Tom Joe and Willie.

Death of traditional musician:
East Galway lost one of its finest traditional musicians recently with the
passing at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, of the late Mr. Michael Sonny
Treacy.

Mr. Treacy who came from
Fahy, Kilconnell, Ballinasloe, was a former member of the famous Aughrim
Slopes Céilí Band. He was also deeply involved in farming over the years. The
deceased was also an active member of the Cappatagle G.A.A. Club. There was a
large and representative attendance present at the Con-Celebrated Requiem
Mass which took place at Kilconnell Church. A group of traditional musicians
performed at his funeral Mass. Deepest sympathy is offered to his wife,
Maureen, and other relatives. He will be long mourned. May he rest in peace.

Patricia Treacy,
of Dundalk Co. Louth, is one of the most versatile virtuoso volinists that
Ireland has ever produced. She studied with outstanding distinction under
Pauline Scott at the London Guild hall of music and drama and travelled
widely to continue her studies under the great maestro’s Pincas Zuckermann in
Israel, Mauricio Fuks in Canada, Uto Ughi and Boris Belkin in Italy, and Igor
Frolov of the Moscow conservatory of music.

The
winner of many prestigious national music awards, Patricia went on to perform
a wide repertoire at premier venues both nationally
and internationally. She has broadcast on radio and television and performed
as soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles including the National
Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the Irish
Chamber Orchestra.

In
one of the many street session at the Ulster Fleadh Cheoil 2014 in Dromore, Co.
Tyrone a selection of jigs - “The Ships in Full Sail” and “Dermot Grogan’s”, played
on three banjos by (left to right) Stephen McKee, Derry, Patrick Treacy, Co.
Fermanagh and Thomas Quinn, Co. Tyrone. Accompaniment is by Erna Girr and Ryan
Kelly, Co. Tyrone.

Peter
Tracey, is a Derry City man, no the place not the football team! I knew him
from his years in Scotland. A super Fiddler & a grand fellow. He came down
from Derry & played at my folk club - The Black Nun - here in Ballycastle,
a few years ago, & I couldn’t believe how well he was playing. Being back
home certainly suits him. He is a master of the complex staccato bow style.

Peter
Treacy of Derry city began as an orchestral player at school and was influenced
by sound recordings, especially those of Johnny Doherty, to take up the music
of the neighbouring county [Donegal]. As well as being a soloist, he is a
session player. He is especially influenced by the older players of the Carrick
and Teelin areas. He does not a family background in music. He does not play in
competitions, and is motivated by an interest in the music and in improving his
own playing. His repertory largely consists of reels , many of them only
associated with Donegal, but at the meeting also played jigs, strathspeys and
other Scottish music, and tunes for special dances such as 'Shoe the donkey'.
Features of Donegal music such as a breakneck pace, droning, double stopping,
octave playing, and some higher position playing is heard in the music.

Sean (John
Christopher) Treacy, from Tallow Co. Waterford, has been living in Cork City
for the past thirty years. He has travelled extensively abroad starting in London
playing with an Irish ballad group called Beggers
Bush. Since then, he has played in Canary Islands, Salou, Lanzarotte,
Cyprus, New York and in venues around Ireland.

He is an
experienced live performer. He has very diverse music influences from Christy
Moore, Beatles, Eagles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, to trad Irish music and
ballads. He started playing guitar at an early age and writing songs, playing
the banjo, mandolin, harmonica, bass guitar, rhythm guitar and lead guitar.

Seán Treacy from Kilkenny, leader of the Seán Treacy Band based in
karlsruhe Germany. He gives the band its distinctive voice and guitar sound. Back
in the 1980s he played with bands in Ireland such as the
"Wolftones" and "Dubliners". He came to Germany in 1985
with a backpack and tent playing early major tours for Guinnesses. In
southern Germany, he was known as a solo musician with the band "Anything
But Trouble". After a number of years, he formed the current band Seán
Treacy Band.

A native of
Hackballscross, near Dundalk, County Louth, She taught at St. Louis Secondary
School Dundalk for 14 years before founding the Cross Border Orchestra of
Ireland (CBOI) in 1995. Her goal was to develop the orchestra as an
educational, creative and artistic means of building relations between
communities North and South of the border.

As part of her mission, she
promotes music particularly among primary school children. She has developed
an outreach programme which brings musical education to over 5,000 children
in Ireland each year. Which she hopes to expand to involve up to 20,000 Irish
children annually.

She was appointed to the Board of the Ulster-Scots
Agency in December 2011. She has a
special interest in the promotion on Ulster Scots music and culture, and has
commissioned several works in the Ulster-Scots genre featuring Drum and
Piping Corps with full symphony orchestra. This music has been performed in
premier venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall, New York; Chicago
Symphony Hall; Boston Symphony Hall; Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre; Shanghai
World Expo 2012 and throughout Europe and Ireland.

Social Media Strategist at Commonwealth of Massachusetts
& Director of Music

A native of the Curragh of Kildare, Ireland. He has been
involved with music from a very early age and was strongly influenced by his
Father and Mother's own musicality, and this exposure to music eventually
resulted in his love and passion for music that he has today. Without his
Dad's influence as a performing singer, he might have never 'gone the music
route in life.'Boston University
distance education program.

July 2014 Director of Music at Parish of the Messiah,
Boston, MA

April 2011 Pi Kappa Lambda, National Honor Music Society

Membership in Pi Kappa Lambda is an honor and by
invitation only. The primary objective of the Society is the recognition and
encouragement of the highest level of musical achievement and academic
scholarship

Nicola Joyce, Aisling Ryan, and Tim Treacy gather
around a piano in Elizabeth Shannon’s home to hear the story of Muriel
Hagerty, whose $100,000 legacy will help these Irish students pursue their
dreams. The three arrived at Boston Univesity in late February 2005. All
post-graduate students in music education at the University of Limerick, they
are student teaching at Boston Latin School, working with College of Fine
Arts Associate Professor William G. McManus as the 2005 recipients of the
Shannon Fellowship. Although the program typically accepts only two students
a year, Shannon says it was “impossible” to choose among them.

Tony has been
involved in the music scene since the age of seventeen. Predominantly a bass player,
he started off playing in local rock bands on the 'pub' circuit. After a
couple of enjoyable years he then stepped up to the national level, touring
Ireland, with a number of recognised bands and also involved in some high
profile gigs - most noticably, the wedding reception of Ozzy Osbourne's son
Louis, and Louise Lennon, and also as a member of the main band for the huge
Telethon production at the Olympia Theatre. Now, with experience from playing
live and session work with various artistes, Tony has decided to pen his own
album.

Una Ni Threasaigh (soprano) In 1929, she was a 16-year-old first prize winner at The
Dublin and Columcille Feiseanna for Gaelic singing. She made her radio debut on
the Dublin station 2RN on the 24th of April 1929, singing Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
(ar gceol feinigi), An Coisire (Hardebeck), Cait Ní Dhuibhir, Spalipin Fanach
(Larchet).

In August 2013 the
father-of-three, has released a new single, “Woe!”, about the reality of
living through Ireland’s recession. After the crash Billy Treacy (42)
witnessed employment dry up as bills continued to arrive at the door. He said
he could feel his self-esteem slip away every day. The “white van man” was
overcome with emotion and channelled his angst into his new single “Woe!”

Emma
is the latest editor of the TalkAround audio Magazine. Originally from Ballyjamesduff
in Co. Cavan, this is where she has based the TalkAround recording studio and
office. She graduated in November 2003, with an Honours Degree in
Communications from Dublin City University. Emma has much experience working
on local radio stations as well as partaking in audio productions in college.
Emma's final year thesis saw her produce a 35 minute audio documentary,
tracking the 50 year history of a local Cavan musical society. She has also
been a regular contributor to the RTE Radio 1 Programme, AudioScope, dealing
with matters for and about people with Vision Impairments.

Dave Treacy
of Limerick and Dublin

Club DJ & RTE Radio Presenter

His style and love for dance music
has developed over the past 14 years by mixing a combination of House,
Electro, HipHop and RnB. Blending multiple genres and creating his own edits
and mash-ups, allows Dave to bring a unique sound to all of his performances.
To date, Dave has played at events in London, Ibiza, Ayia Napa, as well as
some of the top clubs in Ireland. Currently he holds a Friday night residency
at Lost Society, Dublin.

In 2013 Dave released his first
production 'WolfPack', on Beatport, with US record label 'ShureFire Records'
in collaberation with US DJ/Producers 'Kameo' & 'DJ A-Rock'. With more
productions underway, Dave is set to develop a strong sound in the electronic
dance music industry in 2014.

Dave produces and presents a
weekly Saturday night radio show on Irelands national dance music station
'RTE Pulse'.

#WeLoveBeats is a new music show,
covering multiple genres like Deep House, Trap, EDM and more upfront sounds
from the world of dance music. With weekly international guests comprising of
world renowned DJs, producers and artists, the show is dynamic and engaging
for the audience, which reaches from Australia to South Africa, and USA to
Europe.

As a fourth
year Journalism and New Media student at the University of Limerick (UL),
Neil Treacy, was the winner of the 2011 Brendan McKenna memorial award. His
article was entitled ‘North Western Connection’, and examined Sligo Rovers.
Neil’s prize includes Media access, with an SWAI member, to an international
match in 2012, along with a €250 gift voucher towards computer equipment. During
his time in UL Neil has held the sports editor position for both the ‘Moyross
Voice’ and the ‘City Voice’ newspapers and has also spent six months working
with the Limerick Leader newspaper. Nominated for Sports Writer of the Year
at 2012 Smedia Awards.

“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the sports guy.
It was all I ever did when I was young. I played it, watched it on TV,
listened to it on the radio, and read about it in books and the paper. My
playing career was tragically cut short though, through my lack of skills and
basic coordination. Journalism became the next stop.

“When I graduate this year, becoming a sports guy, whether
it is in print or broadcast, is all I want to do. But more than that, I’d
like to have the chance to do it in Ireland. I’m not holding my breath
though. I’m continuing to apply to as many places as I can, but if nothing
comes of it by the summer, I may have to go back to the drawing board.

“But whether my future lies at home or abroad, I know for
certain that I want to be a sports guy.”

University of
Limerick

2008-2012
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism and New Media

Pat
Treacy, Talk Sport, KCLR Carlow/Kilkenny

Róisín Treacy, of Kilkenny and Dublin, Broadcast journalist

Former news journalist with UTV
Radio, KCLR96fm - Carlow and Kilkenny's local radio station, and Classic Hits
4fm. Worked as news cover and broadcast assistant with TV3 Ireland. Worked as
a freelance news reporter with Metro Herald Dublin. News editor with DCUfm -
Ireland's best student radio station for two years.

Bert (Francis Hubert) Tracey (1878-), actor
and director, of Manchester England whose family came from Galway

Bert Tracey/Tracy
was a film actor from 1913 to 1948. He also directed the film, "Boots!
Boots!" in 1934 which marked the film debut of George Formby as an
adult.

He was educated
at St. Bede's College; at a mere 5'2", his first career was as a jockey.
After stage and musical comedy experience, in 1912 he travelled to New York
and began appearing in American films for Kalem, and ended up working for
Lubin in Jacksonville, Florida. There he became good friends with Oliver
Hardy; both of them moved in 1916 to the Vim Co., where tracy not only acted,
but also wrote scenarios and served as assistant director. After Vim folded,
Tracy remained in the Jacksonville area for a time, turning up in little
independent comedies. In 1917, he stated he was an actor with the Myers Theby
Comedy Co. With Glen Lambert, he wrote and directed for Klutho's Sunbeam
Comedies.

In 1923, Fred
Swanton, already a familiar figure on the Santa Cruz film scene in
California, succeeded in bringing two studios to the Boardwalk. Tracy
Productions, headed by comic actor Bert Tracy, was described by Preston
Sawyer in an "Evening News" article as "an unassuming, yet
energetic and progressive, newly-formed moving picture producing
company" (August 25, 1923). Located in the Casino building, Tracy
Productions employed a crew of Hollywood-experienced technicians and players
to create a series of comedies which were released under the brand name
"Lightening Comedies."

Later he returned
England and leaving show business, he remained in touch with Oliver Hardy. He
met up with Laurel & Hardy during their 1932 tour of Britain. A 1933
still shows Laurel and Hardy with studio head Blakely and comedian Bert
Tracey who had gone to America with Chaplin and Laurel with the Fred Karno
Company, and worked in American silent comedy before returning to Manchester
in 1927. Twenty years later when he was out of work, "The Boys"
took him on as a dresser for their 1952 music hall tour.

John James (Jack)
Tracey (1897 or 1903–1978), burlesque comedian and musician.

Sources on the internet states that he was the son of John
Tracey, a Co. Wicklow lighthouse keeper and that after the death of his
mother was raised in a convent before being sent, at the age of 5, to
America.

In a report dated March 12, 1946 in the ‘Cincinnati
Enquirer’ states that he was a Greenwich Village night club comic and
trombonist with Ben Bernie's Orchestra. It would appear that he also had a
stage career as a dancer, and has been credited with being a human model for
the Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Popeye films.

Around 1931, he began performing as a duet with Lita
Vinette as ‘Tracy and Vinette’ along the east coast of the USA, describing
themselves as a duo who provide considerable laughter with their songs,
dances and humour. In 1933, the act began playing in England using the
tagline ‘The sap and the swell dame’. In October, the following review appeared
in Variety:

“Sep 18 Palladium London To create atmosphere, the regular
Palladium gals, were darkened up for the occasion, with another white act,
Tracy and Vinette, also American, likewise assuming a dark tint...Tracy and
Vinette, who laid ant egg some, weeks ago at Leicester Square on their
English debut, have Improved beyond recognition. Team came in when laughs
were needed badly and cleaned up. They now seem to be a safe standard act
here...Tracy and Vinette were the outstanders. Business was surprisingly bad,
with audience in unreceptive mood.”

In 1935, they were employed by Concordia Films to make a
film in Yugoslavia in which

Vinette, aged 24, playing an old witch aged 68. The title
was stated as 'Pepino,' but may have been released in 1937 as ‘The Robber
Symphony’, which was shot at Shepperton Studios.

In September 1935, the act was playing in Sidney
Australia, and was described as ‘the funniest duo In years’ and ‘Just one
long loud laugh’. Also playing on the same bill was Phyllis Dixey.

4
September 1935 The West Australian

Impressed
By Loyalty In Britain. American Dancer's Varied Interests.

Although
Miss S. [or L] Vinette, who passed through Fremantle by the Baradine
yesterday, has spent only two years in England she has quite fallen in love
with both the country and the people. 'I was amazed,' she said, 'at the
expressions of loyalty and the obviously sincere love of the people for the
royal family. To me — an American — it seemed like something out of a fairy
tale. Somehow one cannot imagine such a feeling prevailing in America.'
Accompanied by her sister, 'who acts as a chaperone,' she explained, her
partner, Mr. J. Tracy, and other theatricals. Miss Vinette is bound for
Melbourne under contract to the Tivoli Theatre. Speaking of her work, Miss
Vinette regretted that the public did not appreciate the type of work she
preferred, such as ballet and the better class of music, on the vaudeville
stage. 'But I have to give them what they want,' she added philosophically,
'so I sing modern 'scat' songs and act as a foil to Mr. Tracy, who Is a
comedian. 'Scat' songs, she explained in answer to an inquiry, are those sung
in the style of Cab Calloway, the dance band conductor — loud, rather harsh
and ac companied by strange antics. Work for the Films. Born in New York,
Miss Vinette stated that she had been on the stage for the past 13 years. 'I
do everything except tap dancing and I refused to learn it — it does not
appeal to me at all.' For the past two years she has been touring England and
is looking forward to seeing Australia. A considerable amount of film work
stands to her credit, both in America, where she did dance sequences for
various films, and England, where, before sailing, she had completed a new
film called 'Pepino' for the Shepparton Studios. 'It is the first of Its
type, being rather fantastical, the music depicting the actions of the
players,' she explained. It was interesting to learn from Miss Vinette that
her partner was the original of Micky Mouse. 'Years ago,' she said, 'before
experiments were made with animated cartoons, the Paramount Studios were
seeking a comedian from whom they could glean an idea of the possibilities of
various antics for which Micky Mouse is now famous. Mr. Tracy was selected
and carried out numerous tests. He filled the same role when 'Pop-Eye the
Sailor Man' was first thought of.' A Quiet Life. Apart from her work, Miss
Vinette prefers a quiet life. For exercise she goes riding regularly three
times a week and also plays golf. 'I have never developed a passion for
swimming,' she added, but was assured that this would come after a summer in
Australia. Keenly interested in seeing everything there was to see, Miss
Vinette and her sister were hurrying off the boat to spend the few hours
before sailing in Perth. 'I cannot understand people who take no interest in
the various ports of call,' she remarked. 'I am sure we are going to love
Australia and were pleasantly surprised this morning to receive telegrams of
welcome from the management in Melbourne — it seemed such a friendly action.'

In June 1936, it was reported that Jack Tracey and
partner, Lita Vinette, have parted company after their Tivoli tour, and
Tracey now working Brit vaudeville with a new girl. Jack said he had come to
Australia for a change.

Jack and Phyllis Dixey began touring in a dual variety act
and on 8 December 1938 they were married at Raynes Park register office,
Merton. The couple, who had no children, lived at 10 Fairbourn Road, Brixton,
and at Wentworth Court, Surbiton, before moving in the early 1940s to Strand
Lodge, Epsom. Jack was a shade over five foot, and some commentators have
speculated on how he developed his relationship with Phyllis and also his
wandering ways.

In October 1939, Tracey and Dixey were doing “The Sap and
the Swell Dame” routine billing it as ‘first appearance in this country’.
They then conceived a new routine and this time it was a fan dance and in
November of 1939 at the Tivoli Theatre in Hull Phyllis performed her new
routine. The report in the ‘Cincinnati Enquirer’ states that it Jack’s idea
that Phyllis would make an ideal subject for an experiment in British
reaction to the sort of thing he had seen Gypsy Rose Lee do back in the USA
Jack 'Snuffy' Tracy was her husband, agent, and sometimes accompanist double
act which featured gags, songs, music and a statuesque showgirl whose
embonpoint he would become stuck in. Jack played trombone, but not quite so
well. He was, however, adept at making rude noises with it, which proved
surprisingly popular over the years.

Their great years were the war years. From July 1942 Dixey
appeared at London's Whitehall Theatre in a series of popular revues,
beginning with All's Fair (July 1942). In the
following April, Tracy and Dixey leased the theatre to produce and star in Step out with Phyllis and Goodnight,
Ladies! (March and December 1943), followed by Peek-a-Boo!
and Peek-a-Boo Again! (May 1944 and July 1945).
Billed as ‘England's popular pin-up girl’, Dixey also directed the Peek-a-Boo! revues,

After the war they faced the challenge of rival troupes,
some offering increasingly explicit shows, and the decline of the appeal of
variety theatre. In 1949 she took her act to Scandinavia, repeating the tours
until 1954 though with declining levels of success and financial return.
Indeed, on the final tour the performers' return to England was possible only
with a loan from the British consul in Oslo. In June 1954 she was fined £5 by
Scunthorpe magistrates for public indecency. In February 1957 she and Tracy
were charged with failing to pay their performers during an earlier show. In
1959, they declared themselves bankrupt.

In November 1960 Phyllis moved, without her husband, to
live at The Retreat, the home of her maternal uncle at 45 Downs Wood,
Tattenham Corner, Epsom. Four months later she was diagnosed with breast
cancer and, in the final months of her life, converted to Roman Catholicism.
Phyllis Dixey died at The Retreat, Tattenham Corner, on 2 June 1964

Jack found work as a golf course steward, remarried in
1966 and lived in Surbiton until his death on 11 October 1978.

Rangy, red-headed and straightforward to the bone while
possessing distinctively adenoidal vocal tones, this actor with a voracious
appetite for high living was a fine cinematic representation of the racy and
race-paced style of pre-Code Hollywood. Lee Tracy patented with peerless
skill the lightning rod timing and machine gun delivery so identified with
that period and would have continued on handsomely in films had severe
typecasting, a hair-trigger temper and a notoriously reckless off-camera life
not gotten the best of him.

William Lee Tracy was born on Thursday, April 14, 1898, in
Atlanta, Georgia, to William Lindsay Tracy and Rachel Griffith Tracy. His
father was general superintendent of motive power for railways including the
Lehigh Valley Railroad and his mother was a former schoolteacher. He studied
engineering at Union College 1918, but his interest in dramatics led to him
joining a theatrical company upon graduation. World War I interrupted his
budding dramatic career, he graduated from Western Military Academy and
served in World War I as a second lieutenant. Upon his discharge from the
Army he abandoned the stage for a job as a U.S. Treasury Agent. But the lure
of the theatre proved too strong and after only two years, Tracy bid goodbye
to the Treasury and split his time between vaudeville and touring stock
companies.

He made his Broadway stage debut in The Showoff in 1924,
and in 1926 he hit stardom in George Abbott’s production of Broadway, as a
song-and-dance man, receiving the New York Drama Critics Award. In 1928, he
played his most famous stage role, that of fast-talking newspaperman Hildy
Johnson in Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht’s mammoth hit, The Front Page.
(Unfortunately, when the film version was made in 1931, Tracy was overlooked
in favor of Pat O’Brien.) Fox Studios signed him in 1929, and Tracy made his
starring debut with Mae Clarke in Big Time. Directed by Kenneth Hawks,
brother of Howard, the film was a take on the “A Star is Born” formula with
Tracy as a self-centered vaudevillian comic, and Clarke as an upcoming
singer-dancer.

He followed this with the gangster drama Born Reckless
(1930), in which he played the first of his Walter Winchell-based,
staccato-talking characters. In Liliom (1930) he was “the Buzzard,” the
scheming friend to Charles Farrell’s titular carnival barker, and in the
Tiffany Studios comedy She Got What She Wanted (1930), as Eddie, the unreliable
vaudeville hoofer boyfriend of star Betty Compson.

Tracy then impulsively abandoned Hollywood to return to
Broadway, appearing in Oh, Promise Me in 1930, and Louder Please in 1931. But
Hollywood still wanted him, and when he returned in 1932, it was in the
employ of Warner Bros. Once again he played a fast-talking newspaperman in
his WB debut, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, co-starring with Ann Dvorak.
He followed it was another newspaperman role in William Wellman’s Love is a
Racket, and again as a reporter in Michael Curtiz’s gothic horror opus,
Doctor X. He rounded out 1932 for Warner’s as the cynical scandal-seeking
columnist in Blessed Event.

Tracy then did a little freelancing, playing a freshman
Congressman out to rid Washington of corruption in Washington Merry-Go-Round
(1932) for Columbia, a seedy barker who transforms sideshow dancer Lupe Velez
into a Broadway sensation in the ribald The Half Naked Truth, for RKO (1932),
and Private Jones for Universal in 1933.

By this time Tracy had earned a reputation as an excellent
actor, albeit one with a hair-trigger temper and a pronounced carousing and
heavy drinking habit. Nevertheless, MGM signed him to a long-term contract
with a substantial pay raise in 1933. He scored critical and profitable turns
in such films as Clear All Wires! (1933), The Nuisance (1933), Turn Back the
Clock (1933), Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), the MGM star-studded ensemble
classic Dinner at Eight (1933), and the Jean Harlow vehicle Bombshell (1933).
With each picture as popular or more so than the last, it seemed as if the
sky was the limit for Tracy’s talent.

However, Tracy had forged a solid reputation with his
heavy drinking and unrestrained nightlife, which led to increased absences
from the set. It all came to a head in 1933 with an incident that derailed
Tracy’s career. During the filming of MGM’s Viva Villa in Mexico City, Tracy
was arrested for allegedly urinating on a group of Mexican soldiers and
getting into fisticuffs with the arresting officers. Tracy claimed the he was
urinating into a steel grate, and several members of the film crew stated
that the incident didn’t unfold as the Mexican authorities claimed.
Nevertheless, MGM felt compelled to issue an apology to the Mexican
government. They also cancelled his five-year contract, citing the morals
clause. As Tracy was a heavy drinker offstage, the studio had weight on their
side. With no other studio bidding for his exclusive services, Tracy turned
to freelancing, but as the years went on, the quality of his films
declined.

On the 20 July 1938 at Yuma Arizona, Lee Tracy married
Mrs. Helen Thomas Wyse, an attractive San Francisco divorcee, , whom he met
when she called to sell him an insurance policy on his yacht. They gave their
ages as 40 years and 26 years respectively. They intend to spend a honeymoon
of nine months hi England. In London, he was to appear in the play
"Idiot's Delight".

When the U.S. got involved in World War II, he went back
into the army, where he did intelligence work for two years.

With his last postwar film at the time being High Tide,
Tracy's looks had hardened dramatically and he looked at TV being a possible
medium for his talents. Throughout the '50s and early '60s, he appeared on a
number of shows, including "Kraft Television Theatre", "Wagon
Train" and "Ben Casey". He also took on series leads, such as
The Amazing Mr. Malone, Martin Kane, Private Eye, and New York Confidential.
And there was always the stage.

Tracy's last hurrah, both on Broadway and in film, was
Gore Vidal's blistering political drama The Best Man. Recreating his 1961
Tony-nominated role of the crusty, terminally ill U.S. president, he received
his only Oscar nod for this standout part. He reprised the role in film in
1964, and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. The rest of
his working years went by with less distinction. In the summer of 1968 he was
diagnosed with liver cancer and succumbed to the illness on October 18 of
that year in a Santa Monica hospital and was survived by his wife of 30
years, Helen Thomas Wyse.

Ref:

James Robert Parish, William T. Leonard (1976) Hollywood
Players: The Thirties

1.2.4 Frank J. Tracy was born September
1861 in Mazomanie, Dane county, Wisconsin m. Mary Barron 1891. Died June 14,
1928 [see biography]

1.2.4.1 Helen Tracy was born South Dakota or Illinois 1892/3.

1.2.4.2 Cathlene Tracy was born South Dakota 1901.

He then married Mary Guhin 29th
May 1866 St.
Bamabas, Mazomanie,
Dane county, Wisconsin. Mary was born in Ireland 15 Jan 1848 in
Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry. Mary was the daughter of Timothy Guhin. Mary died 9
Feb 1918 in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, at 70 years of age. They had the
following children:

1.2.5 John Edward Tracy was
born in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois Jan 1873 (d.1928). He married Caroline
(Carrie) Brown ca 1894. Caroline was born in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois
Oct 1874 (d. 1942). Caroline was the daughter of Edward Silas Brown and
Abigail Stebbins. John Edward Tracy and Caroline Brown had the following
children:

The youngest of six, Bláthnaid Treacy was born in May 1988. At the time RTE were casting
for the role of Biddy and Miley's baby (screen) daughter. Her mum brought her
in for an audition and that was that. Bláthnaid, or Bláth,
continued in the part of ‘Denise’ for the next thirteen years but was happy
to step out of the limelight when the show ended in 2001. In 2006 she
went on to study Archaeology and Modern Irish in U.C.D. However, on
completing her degree she decided to pursue a career in television once
again, this time seeking a role behind the camera. She spent a year
studying TV and Film Production and with only days left in here course, she
came across a job advertisement for the new face of 'Ó Tholg go Tolg' on TG4.
The pioneering travel show returns in 2013 in which two intrepid Irishwomen,
Bláthnaid Treacy and camerawoman
Laura O'Connell,couch-surf their way across Europe. She is also
a presenter on RTÉ’s Two Tube.

18 January 2008: A Short film ‘Hysteria’ produced in Derry at The Nerve Centre
with young people from Off the Streets Initiative has been shortlisted
for a prestigious First Light Movies Award in the Best Horror category. Jim
Curran the Nerve Centre project manager says: “We are absolutely thrilled and
delighted at receiving this nomination and I would like to congratulate
everyone involved in the production from the Nerve Centre Vincent
O’Callaghan, Gerry Tracey and Martin Quigley and to the Off the
Streets Initiative leader Alison McDaid and of course to all the young people
involved in the production of the film. Four people involved will travel over
to the award ceremony in March which will prove to be a trip of a lifetime
and our fingers are crossed for a win”.

Kevin Treacy, of Belfast, Director of Photography

Kevin Thomas Treacy hails from Belfast. He studied
cinematography at the Los Angeles Film School. Since graduating in 2010 he
has worked extensively in the camera and electrical departments on TV and
film productions including ‘Game of Thrones’. In 2012 he was cinematographer
for feature film ‘Made In Belfast’ and has since photographed dozens of
commercials, music videos and short films in the US, UK and Ireland. He is a director at the The Imagination Bureau,
founded in Belfast in 2013, a group of film makers who create high end commercial films, branded
content and music videos.

Ruth Treacy BA Film & Vid.

Company Director & Producer, Tailored Films

Ruth Treacy
graduated from the National Film School in 2004 (at IADT, Dún Laoghaire) with
first class honours. Ruth was asked back by Dún Laoghaire to lecture on
sound.She has a postgraduate diploma
in New Business Development from DIT, and is also a graduate of the
prestigious EAVE European Producers Network 2013. She has extensive and
varied experience when it comes to filmmaking and producing. She has worked
with Julianne Forde together as a successful production team since 2000. Many of the
films they have produced, directed and worked on have achieved critical
acclaim on the festival circuit at an international level (including a Cannes
winner, a European Short film award winner and a screening in the Museum of
Modern Art, New York). As well as working in a freelance capacity as a sound
recordist for numerous projects; including the first series of Dan and Becs
for RTE.Alongside the Digital Film
School, in 2006 they started a successful production company, Tailored Films,
which specialises in web-movies, corporate promotional films, short films and
ads. In 2010 Ruth produced the award winning RTE cross media series
‘Zombie Bashers’, which was the winner of the highly publicised Storyland
competition. For TV, Ruth developed and directed the 36 episode children’s TV
series ‘Tim’s Tactical Tips’ for RTÉ, as well as the children’s TV series
‘Life Lessons’. Ruth was a producer on the feature film ‘Stitches’ in 2012,
which was funded by the Irish Film Board and MPI Dark Sky, and directed by
Conor McMahon. In 2013 she graduated the EAVE Producers Network. She was
series producer for Spooky Stakeout (20 episodes, 2015–2016). In July 2016
producers Julianne Forde and Ruth Treacy for Tailored Films received €600,000
funding for the second feature from Let Us Prey director Brian O’Malley, The
Lodgers, which is scripted by David Turpin, is a ghost story of orphaned
twins Rachel and Edward who share their crumbling stately home with unseen sinister
forces.

Before
coming to NUI Galway, I was involved with film and film education in a
variety of roles and contexts. After graduating as a secondary-school teacher
I spent several years teaching at international schools in Japan, Paris and
New York and began including film in my curricula. In New York I also worked
on a number of independent films and then for Miramax Films (International) before
returning to Ireland to work in a number of capacities in film production and
film culture. I was senior education officer at the Irish Film Institute from
1996-2000 and central to the development of a pioneering film education
programme for second-level students that included the introduction of film in
the Leaving Certificate English curriculum. I spent several years developing
and delivering teacher training programmes for the IFI and Department of
Education and have continued to offer workshops and write study materials for
use with school students. Alongside my academic research and teaching I
remain passionately involved with the development of film culture in the
public sphere as a director of the Fresh Film Festival
(www.freshfilmfestival.net), through frequent guest lectures, school visits
and public interviews, and as a regular radio broadcaster.

Illustration and Graphic Arts:

Carolyn Treacy of Cork, London, Berlin and New York

Cork born Carolyn Treacy graduated
from the Crawford College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art and in 2008
completed a post graduate diploma in character animation from central Saint
Martin’s College in London. She has also worked on various animation and
illustration projects, including “Transcriptions”, a collaboration between
the National Gallery of London and Central St. Martins.Carolyn has also exhibited in many group
exhibitions both home and abroad including “State of the Art” group show in
the Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.Most recently she was involved in “Living
Art” at IMOCA, Dublin and “This Space” at the Little Green St. Gallery.She has also exhibited in New York, a
result of an illustration residency in the School of visual Arts, New York.
In November 2012 at Cronin’s Pub, Crosshaven, Co. Cork, she had an
exhibition, entitled “Window Boxes”, a collection of stories and observations
from bustling urban environments.

Walter Valentine Tracy (1914-1995),
typographer, whose family came from Ireland.

He was born on St Valentine's Day, 14 February 1914 in
Islington, London, the son of Walter Tracy (1882-1938), a seaman in the Royal
Navy. His mother, Anne Nunn (1883-1984), worked as a leather machinist before
her marriage in 1909. Walter was the elder of two children: his sister, Rose
Ann Tracy was born in 1917. In his own words, ''We were of the London working
class, poor but respectable - an important word in those days.''

Walter Tracy started his professional life as a compositor,
and ended as a type designer of distinction; in 1973 he was made a Royal
Designer for Industry. His speciality was typefaces designed for newspapers.

At the age of 12 he entered the printing department of the
Central School of Arts & Crafts, who arranged an apprenticeship for him
in the great printing firm of William Clowes, to date from his 14th birthday.
In the school, he was made to spend hours drawing the letter-forms of Caslon
(one of the most popular book faces), not by tracing but by copying them
detail by detail. To a 14 year-old schoolboy nothing could have been more
boring, and he developed a deep hatred of the face which lasted for years.

He left Clowes as a fully fledged compositor in 1935 and
then had varied experience in printing and advertising until, in 1946, he was
offered a part-time job by James Shand, "the man who had most influence
in my life". Shand was by profession a printer; he was also a writer, an
able designer who could not draw a line, and a man of cultivation and taste.
Tracy wrote of him: "His influence on me was strong. My mind expanded
(and not before time: after all, I was in my thirties), and I began to take a
serious interest in the history and aesthetics of printing, to acquire books
on the subject, and to form opinions - and even to learn when to change
them."

Shand had before 1939 started a typographical periodical
for the Linotype Company of Great Britain, called Linotype Matrix. He now
asked Tracy to edit and design it, which he did with great credit for some 10
years. In 1947 Tracy was appointed as manager of typeface development: while
there his technical knowledge and experience made him time and again a better
designer than the professional "artists". One of his most notable
achievements was Jubilee, a face required to replace the famous Times Roman,
whose matrices (the moulds from which type is cast) were found continually to
need renewal, their side-walls being unusually thin and vulnerable. Jubilee
was introduced in 1953, and used by a fair number of newspapers - but not by
the Times.

Tracy worked for the Times later. In 1965 he was asked by
Francis Mathew, the manager of the Times, to leave Linotype and join the
newspaper's staff as its designer, full-time. Tracy, after also being
interviewed by Stanley Morison, the father-figure of Times typography,
accepted the invitation, but at the last moment Mathew died suddenly of a
heart attack; his successor, George Pope, thought that the new appointment
was not a good idea and that it would be better for Tracy to work for the
Times while still at Linotype; which Tracy did. A redesigned Times appeared
in 1966, but it did not last long, as the newspaper soon changed hands and,
in Tracy's own modest words, "new people changed the style and content
of the pages - for the better, I think".

Tracy also designed a new face, Telegraph Modern, in 1969,
for the Daily Telegraph, who wanted a face for their exclusive use; and he
then designed Times Europa, which was introduced into the Times on 9 October
1972 to replace Morison's Times Roman, a week after the 40th anniversary of
that typeface's first appearance. Tracy's position as leading typeface
designer for newspapers was now plain for all to see. The Sunday Times began
using the new face a year or so later.

Tracy also designed two important faces for classified
advertisements, Adsans and Maximus. In addition he was involved in making
Arabic faces for Linotype composition, which he could do by learning the
alphabet and the numerous ligatures that are a feature of Arabic typesetting
- without having to learn the language.

Walter Tracy, slight in build, with an alert and humorous
face, had an incisive mind and was deeply kind and honest, always ready to
help those who asked for his advice. He dispensed that, too, in two excellent
and modest books written in his retirement, Letters of Credit: a view of type
design (1986) and The Typographic Scene (1988).

"For my own part," he wrote in an introduction
to the former, "I take the view that typography, like most other sorts of
designing, is essentially a means to an end; and the end is not the
self-satisfaction of the designer but the contribution he or she makes to the
effectiveness of whatever is presented to the public."

Harriet Margaret Tracy (born
Fage) was born in 1844, to Nathaniel James Fage and Fage (born Harriet).
Nathaniel was born in 1819, in of Holborn, London, UK.was born circa 1824, in
of Holborn, London, UK. She had one sister: Harriet Victoria Margaret Fage.
Harriet married Robert Tracy in 1867, at age 23. Robert was born circa 1847.

Erin
M. Treacy, who received her Master's in Fine Arts in painting from the UMass
Dartmouth in 2007, was awarded in 2009 a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship
to Ireland in Painting and Printmaking, the United States Department of State
and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Erin Treacy, who lived in New York, travelled to the west coast of Ireland to
complete her studio-based research project in painting. In recent years she
has exhibited both nationally and internationally in group and solo
exhibitions. She has taught studio and art history classes at the college
level, as well as participated in numerous international artist symposiums.
"It is with great pride I accept my Fullbright scholarship to continue
my endeavour in the art world," she said, adding that her endeavour will
culminate with a solo exhibition in May.

Fintan
is a member of Indigo, an East Coast Art Group. He is a self taught artist
who has loved drawing since he was a child. Having later mastered the skill
of painting in oils, he says” the pleasure in painting is secondary when you
see your work is enjoyed by other people”.

He
enjoys painting the Irish landscape with it’s varied moods, rich earthy
colours and cloudy skies. Fintan likes exploring new ideas in his still
life’s and admires the great Dutch artists of the 17th century. Having a keen
eye too for portraiture he brings a bright and vibrant likeness to all his
portraits.

A
Renewal of Beauty in Art - a Catholic Understanding of Beauty in Art is a new
book by artist Fintan Tracey. It is a book of essays from Tracey's time
studying this topic at the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham. There are
illustrations from some of his own work which was displayed at the
International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, June 2012, as well as
consideration of the work of other artists. The book includes detailed notes
and bibliography.

Copies
of the book are available from Fintan Tracey, 18 St Anthony's, Laytown, Co.
Meath for €10, including postage.

Liam Treacy (1934-2004), was a Wicklow artist who had been painting in an
impressionist style since the 1950s. He was born in Avoca, Co.
Wicklow, where his family have been settled for many generations, the son of
James Treacy, a postman, and Ellen O’Neill, daughter of a local copper miner,
John O’Neill. Liam is the second youngest of their family of four sons and two
daughters. During his primary school days, he was very interested in drawing,
influenced by his brother Sean, a postman and keen artist. He exhibited
regularly with the James Gallery, Dalkey, and had participated in a wide
range of group shows including the annual RHA exhibitions and the Wexford
Opera Festival. In 1978 Liam Treacy went full-time as a professional painter,
a courageous step, and the fact that he had made a career of it is testimony
to the sheer quality of his work as an artist. Before going professional, he
worked in the former Brennan's Bakery in Arklow, which used his skill as an
artist to paint the lettering on its vans. Liam says, “By the mid-seventies,
I was doing very well, but because we had three young children, Adrienne,
Fiona and Darragh, I was reluctant to give up my day job at the Bakery.
However the decision was made for me. I was made redundant”. The redundancy
came in 1978, which can be looked back upon as the year Liam became a
full-time professional artist. For many years he was an art teacher for
night-time classes in Arklow Community College, Abbey Community College,
Wicklow; and at Shelton open detention centre art classes for the prisoners.

Darragh Treacy was
born and raised just outside Avoca, Co. Wicklow. Darragh is predominately
self taught and favours the use of oils with an impressionist style. He has
studied under such artists as American artist Valerie Craig as well as Phelim
and Caroline Donfield. While finding inspiration and influence from many
different painters it is probably Darragh’s late father, Liam Treacy, that
most influences and inspires Darragh’s work. Spending time painting on
location with his father as a child gave Darragh his earliest experience of
painting “en plein air”, something he still enjoys today whenever the
opportunity arises. Darragh’s subject matter is varied and includes
still-life, landscapes and street scenes. Darragh works as a designer and his
work has brought him much critical acclaim and numerous awards from the
Institute of Designers of Ireland, including for set design of The Late Late
Show [see above].

Meghan Treacy is a fully registered Art
Therapist, who graduated from Crawford College, Cork with an Honours Masters.
She is affiliated to IACAT, (Irish Association of Creative Art Therapists).

She has worked in a variety of mental
health settings, including hospice and palliative care, nursing home, has
worked with survivors of abuse, domestic violence, ex offenders and youth at
risk of offending who present with challenging behaviour.
She attained an honours Degree in Fine Art, specialising in painting, a
Higher Diploma qualification in Art Teaching and continues to work as a
Limerick based Artist.

Treacy
drew inspiration from traditional techniques which he applied in a
contemporary context. His paintings were constantly worked and reworked in
order to produce a density of pigment. Treacy was influenced by many painters
and writers including Hans Holbein, Pieter Brueghel and Patrick Kavanagh. He
taught art for a number of years in schools in Dublin before joining the
Office of Public Works. He exhibited in numerous group shows and was
commissioned to complete a variety of Drawing, Painting and Design work for both
commercial and private collectors. File contains a catalogue with images of
the artists work.

There
was also a poignant but attractive Retrospective Exhibition of paintings in
May by the late Tony Treacy (1968-2004) who was formerly on the staff of OPW.
Many of the paintings were sold afterwards by the artist's family and the
entire proceeds were donated to charity.

Jun 1, 2005 Irish Times

Last
week a small retrospective devoted to the work of Tony Treacy, who died last
year, occupied the Atrium Gallery at the OPW on St Stephen's Green. It was a
good tribute and it revealed an artist of great sensitivity and forceful
insight, a self-critical talent edgily determined not to do the easy or
obvious thing.

Treacy
was born in 1968 and studied painting at the College of Marketing and Design
in Dublin and later at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Apart from
pursuing his own work, he taught part-time and, from 1999, was a clerical
officer with the OPW.

It seems
fair to assume that he was at some stage a student of Patrick Graham in
Dublin. Graham opened the exhibition and his influence is evident in Treacy's
work, which nevertheless has a strongly individual character. He shares
Graham's respect for drawing, his trust in what might be termed emotional
instinct and his wariness of facility. The textural distinction between his
drawings and paintings is immediately striking.

Many of
the drawings are meticulous tonal studies, precise, fine-grained images built
up incrementally. In some cases their smooth, seamless surfaces are cut by
odd, unsettling disjunctures and elisions. They refer to photographs,
including a childhood snapshot, and art historical sources. Generally the
paintings are more roughly textured, built up through a process of attrition,
hard-won. As a note in the catalogue observes, this pattern of "scraping
away and rebuilding" complements but never contradicts the more
additive, considered nature of the drawings.

The
paintings on view are also small in scale, and have a conversational intimacy
about them. He worked consistently, even obsessively, in terms of variations
on a relatively small number of themes including, particularly,
self-portraiture and memento mori still life subjects.

In both
of these areas he came up with some exceptional pieces. A concern with making
a stage-like space also comes across strongly in these and other paintings,
including the buildings in his series of city studies: a theatre of the
imagination. It is a pity to encounter work that has so much to offer in this
way as a posthumous retrospective.

Valerie Treacy

Valerie
Treacy is primarily a still life painter in the medium of oil, though she is
also known for her delicate watercolour work. Her light, still life paintings
are almost ethereal in quality. A graduate in Fine Art from the Crawford
Municipal School of Art in Cork, she subsequently spent twenty years teaching
art before returning to her own work in a studio in Killarney, on a fulltime
basis.

The Victor Treacy Award
The Victor Treacy Award, which began as a putative one-off in 1991 became an
annual event. A personal initiative on the part of Victor and Rachel Treacy
(he is a businessman and Art Collector, based near Muine Bheag, Carlow, and
she is on the board of the Butler Gallery). With the co-operation of the
Butler, the selection process serves as the basis for an exhibition of work
by short-listed artists. The short list is drawn up by three invited
selectors who each contribute the names of three artists. The aim is to
achieve a broad geographical spread and, perhaps, a diversity of type. Given
such a procedure, it is inevitably a fragmented show, but that is not
necessarily a drawback, particularly given the Butler's sequential floor
plan. The Award, which started at £1,500, is directed at younger artists, to
help in some way towards materials or equipment. The exhibition is also a
significant indicator of artistic practice of emerging artists. It was an
important exhibition in the national visual art programme. The winners were:
1991 T.J. Maher,1992 Morgan Doyle,
1993 Clodagh Redden, 1994 Rebecca Peart, 1996 Tom Climent, 1998 Gerard Byrne,
1997 Rosie McGurran, In 2002, the award was a cash prize of €2,600 and the
winner was Jesse Jones.

Ciúin Tracey is a freelance photographer who works
mainly in fashion and commercial photography, with these genres influencing
heavily upon her more personal fine art work. She has exhibited work in
many galleries, including The Gallery of Photography, the RDS and Farmleigh
House. She has also been printed in multiple publications, and is currently
the resident photographer in Shutterbug, Kilkenny. Her work can be seen in
the permanent collections of Olivier Cornet, Fire and Dublin Ink.

She is interested in using the techniques gained through
fashion and studio photography, to create photographic series that explore
the person’s relationship with their bodies in relation to the ideals set
forth by modern media stereotypes. Tracey is currently working on an
expansion of her graduation series entitled The Tyranny of Beauty.
The Tyranny of Beauty is a photographic narrative that explores the
representation of the body and the psychological impact of the promotion of
certain physical ideals in the contemporary media sphere. The series examines
peoples’ relationships with their physical being and how often, in the search
for the perfect or ‘utopian’ body, a dystopian reality is created as a result
of unnatural aims and expectations.

As an exploration of the photographic studio and the codes
surrounding the body of the model, the role of gesture and pose and the
allegory of still life, these photographs represent related body-based and
psychological states. Through the dark colour palette and the claustrophobic
nature of the frame, the audience is confronted with a construction of
dysfunction, which may be read as a kind of distortion and dismorphia
produced by the excess of visual images in everyday life dictating unhealthy
body ideals. These photographs propose another vantage point on a
much-discussed social issue that affects men and women of all ages.

A
photography graduate of Swansea University. Starting as a freelance with
INPHO in 2000 he has been staff since 2002. He established himself as one of
the most talented sports photographers in Ireland. Awards include both
picture essay and sports feature categories of the annual PPAI Awards and on
an international level he has twice won worldwide prizes for his rugby
photography. Now a senior photographer who has covered for Inpho everything
from World Cup Cricket in the West Indies to International Rules Football in
Australia he is fulfilling his obvious talent.

Winning
photographer at the launch of the IRB World Rugby Yearbook in 2007.

‘Mud
glorious mud’,

Winning
entry for the Emirates and IRB 2006 Photograph of the Year

Paul
Treacy, Photographer/Photohumourist, of Dublin, New Ross, NY and London

Born
Dublin, Ireland, 1969. I’ve been shooting professionally since 1992. I
studied graphic design, creative writing and photography in Europe. I
graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the
International Center of Photography in New York in 2000. Publications
include: The New York Times Magazine, Discover Magazine, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, The Independent & Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, The
Daily & Sunday Telegraph, The Times & Sunday Times & The Irish
Times.
I published my first book in August 2005.
I have a bravery medal from the Irish Government for a winter river rescue in
’91.
My wife and I have two sons.

Bravery
Awards - Comhairle na Mire Gaile

The
Chairman had received a letter dated 27th January, 1992 from Comhairle na
Mire Gaile requesting that he present awards for bravery at an early meeting
to Eddie O'Connor, Boolavogue, Philip Murphy, New Ross and Paul Tracey, New
Ross in recognition of their outstanding courage in seeking to protect life.

It
was agreed that this be done at the end of the monthly Council Meeting on the
9th March, 1992, that the meeting would adjourn at 5.00 p.m. to a hotel where
the recipients and their families would be met by the Council and the
presentations made by the Chairman.